Today I shared the Connected Principals website with the Twitterverse. I just wanted to share the reasons why I started this site:
One night going for a run in the middle of June, I was thinking about a lot of the negative criticism directed towards administrators on Twitter. Although it seems that is has become more positive of late, I really wanted to encourage others to see the many contributions that administrators provide for not only social networking, but through the wonderful projects that are being done at their schools. I also thought about creating a resource that would be beneficial to current administrators and those that are interested in going into administration.
Although I share a lot of my ideas on this blog and try to be as transparent as possible, I am only one voice. I also may not be a voice that people can always connect with. Ultimately, I thought of creating a collaborative blog site that would bring voices of principals together and could act as this resource. I quickly looked up domain names and came up with http://connectedprincipals.com. Although this is for all school administrators, “connectedadmin” was already gone.
Although I planned on “launching” the site in September when I had more resources posted on the blog, I was pushed after my own tweet this morning:
After writing this, discussion started about how it would be great to have a collaborative leadership blog. Seeing the power through the #TEMT (Twitter Exercise and Motivation Team) blog, I figured that there was no better time than now.
So here is the Why behind starting the site:
- I wanted to share and show all of the positive practices that administrators are doing currently within schools to role model to current and aspiring administrators.
- Create a more positive viewing of administrators through social media.
Many of the posts that will be shared in this resource will be ones that you may have read before on different posts and are cross-posted, but categorized so they are easier to find with different author viewpoints. This also gives me an opportunity to reflect and learn from those that I am connecting with.
I am really excited about where this can go. If you know of any school administrators who you think would be great contributors to this, I would love to hear from them. I have no idea what can come of this, but I am excited about the possibilities.
